1 post tagged “the bees”

I hate getting reports or reading reports of assessments for Paolo. The time I got the official report from Sunny Hill about his autism, I felt really bad since the only thing that sounded good about it was the part for 'physical description' where they describe my son as a 'handsome good looking little boy'. Other than that, was all the other stuff that I knew about that I didn't want to hear again. But lately, now that we've been doing weekly therapy, things have been going a bit better with regards those reports. This is in part, because of the people that Paolo's been working with regularly now , our behaviour consultant's team of interventionists -  fresh out of university. They've set up this binder for Paolo where they record all the things that have happened in the session, nice little informal reports of Paolo's therapy.

Now, instead of seeing comments like - "Poor eye contact. Has Receptive/expressive language disorder" I'm now seeing comments on his binder that go like "Paolo is very smart and cute but cannot let him get away with this as it will not help him in school" when recounting the time when he tried to get out of doing an exercise by pretending to be asleep on the couch with his blankie over his head. Or "Super cute!"  when he was able to successfully copy a flower drawn by the interventionist. It actually warms my heart that they add these comments to the report - though far from scientific, which does nothing for me to know how he's going along with improvements in his condition - it helps to think that others find my son as cute as I do, even though he occasionally kicks or headbutts people the face or in the case of one of the interventionists, gotten a chair thrown at her and a toy bounced off of her head.

Now, I kind of have this assurance that violent tendencies aside, my son has proven to be charming with his super cuteness and smartness.
 

It makes me a bit more relaxed I suppose - much like  listening to the  The Bees' song "Sky Holds the Sun" while driving. It's one of those rare songs that'll make you feel so laid back that you'll just want to sing along to the lyrics that's repeated over and over and over again. It's pretty dangerous though, listen to it in your car radio at your own risk. You'll find yourself mesmerized by the lyrics and make your thoughts drift off to other things, like that one time when I was listening to it while driving, I was humming along and thinking... yeah, I wanna hold you like the sky holds the sun....hmmm this is such a nice song, kind of reminds me of Burt Bacharach, is this a Burt Bacharach song? nah, but it sure does sound like it. what's that song that I really liked. yeah, it was that song in arthur 2, love is my decision, chris deburgh. why didn't that song take off like the one in the first arthur movie? he was a much better singer than the guy who sang that moon in new york city song.  and didn't the arthur 2 song sound more like a usual bacharach song? maybe if dionne warwick sang it. ooops i think i missed my exit there. oh well, 30 minutes late isn't so bad...i wanna hold you like the sky holds the sun, i wanna hold you like the sky holds the sun....